ZMT - Leibniz Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung
News from the tropics and beyond: ZMT Newsletter #2/2025 now online
23/10/2025 | This edition of our newsletter takes you to a unique marine protected area south of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest in Bangladesh – the “Swatch of No ground”. Here, ZMT has been contributing to the sustainable integration of fair and viable options...
Report on ZMT research into sustainable aquaculture wins journalism award
29/09/2025 | The German Nutrition Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e. V. - DGE) has recently awarded its 2025 Journalism Prize recognising amongts other a feature in German P.M. Magazin about research conducted at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium 2025
19/09/2025 | ZMT’s social sciences groups will host the Leibniz Environment and Development Symposium (LEADS) on 10 - 11 December 2025. This lunch-to-lunch gathering is designed for Early Career Researchers (ECRs) to present advanced full paper drafts and...
Committed scientist and critical companion: In memory of Dr Irmtraut Hempel
18/09/2025 | The Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) mourns the passing of Dr Irmtraut Hempel (née Schneider), who died on 8 September in Molfsee near Kiel, just a few weeks before what would have been her 101st birthday. For 73 years Irmtraut...
Shaping our shared future: Invitation to a workshop with CEMarin on 26 September
16/09/2025 | On Friday, 26 September 2025, the Corporation Center of Excellence in Marine Sciences (CEMarin) invites all interested ZMT colleagues and researchers with a focus on Colombia and the wider region to a mini-workshop. The event will take place from...
Bremen Criteria 2025: Updated Guidelines for Equitable and Responsible Research
15/09/2025 | Die Bremer Kriterien dienen als Leitfaden für die Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem ZMT und seinen Kooperationspartnern. Sie entstanden 1991 und wurden 2015 sowie zuletzt 2025 überarbeitet. Auf Basis unserer Erfahrungen mit Co-Design und unseren...
Climate, Coasts, Complexity: Northern Germany at the heart of Earth System Modelling
09/09/2025 | In September, Northern Germany becomes the meeting point for the international Earth System Modelling community. Three high-level scientific events, the CELLO Conference and the natESM Focus Workshop on Ocean Biogeochemistry in Hamburg, and the...
A day of scientific diving at Bremen’s Stadtwaldsee
08/09/2025 | Black tubs filled with wetsuits, masks and tools are stacked up on the shore of Bremen's lake “Stadtwaldsee”. Next to them are freshly filled compressed air tanks. Even before the first divers enter the water, there is a flurry of activity:...
Shaping marine futures: Successful summer course on transdisciplinarity
03/09/2025 | This summer, ZMT, IPB University in Indonesia, the International Ocean Institute (IOI), the University of Bremen and other partners jointly organised an international summer course on transdisciplinary research at IPB in Indonesia for the first...